DRUG USE IN WOMENS' PRISONS

Early day motion 1677, tabled 21 October 1998 by Paul Flynn (Labour). Signed by 16 members.

That this House is gravely concerned at evidence of the over prescription of damaging and addictive medicinal drugs in women's prisons; believes that powerful medicinal drugs prescribed to the late Emma Humphries and one other woman may have caused their premature deaths; is alarmed by the claims made by a distinguished author that neuroleptic drugs are routinely prescribed to young women prisoners who mutilate themselves, and that medicinal drugs are used as pacifiers which move prisoners from non-addictive illegal drug use to highly addictive medicinal drug use; and calls for a full inquiry into all drug use in women's prisons.

Signatures by party: Labour 14, Liberal Democrat 2.